The biggest mistakes that have been made here are the extremely fluctuating difficulty in the various racing events, the overall very hefty and sometimes very frustrating as unfair difficulty of the game as a whole, the often illogical behavior of the AI drivers and ultimately even in the light game mode fact that at the beginning really everything is locked and you must unlock each vehicle, every single event, etc., before it can be used for example in single race mode.
Bypass individual events is not possible, who does not get further in one of the three periods of the story can only jump to the next section - the events are also here increasingly difficult with large steps. For many gamers, the game experience should end here quickly in frustration and shortly thereafter be gone for good.
With the game elements of Test Drive - series the Game incidentally has nothing to do, either there is a freely traversed the world like in the last two games were allowed to carry the series name still tearing this game so with significant as the Games of the original series for the PC was inferior sometime shortly after the turn of the century the successful NFS franchise.
Beginners in the genre is not recommended this game and even professionals should know what they are getting. I myself have truly been bitten me in this item at the teeth and I drive for 20 years arcade racer and currently successful title category GT5 and Forza Horizon - but something like this, I've rarely seen